# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Weave your own backpack or kete
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 12:00 am – Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 am (+12:00)
- **Event Description**: Weave your own pikau kete - Back pack or kete - bag/basket
Learn how to harvest and prepare the harakeke using traditional māori weaving tikanga - protocols and practices.
Before I harvest I say a karakia - intention to Tane Mahuta - Kaitiaki - Guardian of the forest, trees and birds and insects that live in the forest. 
We soften the strips of harakeke to make whenu - weaving strips.
Then these are joined together with a whiri - plait.
Pikau kete are my favourite thing to weave. They look great and are always useful for carrying lunch or clothing to the beach or town. Preparing the harakeke first after we harvest will take 1 day. 
Wear covered shoes (or gumboots) 
Sunday we will weave our own pikau kete or whiri kete.
BYO lunch, tea, coffee, milk etc provided
$200 per person.
I have been teaching weaving since 2017 at KareNZ Kitz Weaving Studio and Art Gallery beside the river in Waitara Taranaki. 
In between KareNZ Kitz and the river is a park/playground, walkway (30 mins to the beach) with Art installations and a carving studio next door run by Artists and teachers Rangi Bailey (rakau-wood) and Morgan Watson (pounamu - greenstone).

To book and secure your space please pay $200 to
KAREN CLARK T/A KARENZKITZ 
ASB 12 - 3135 -0170086 - 00
Use your name for the reference
Text Karen 0226482713 to confirm available spaces.
No refunds are available, however you can send someone else in your place if you are unable to attend.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/waitara/weave-your-own-backpack-or-kete/200029635503131
- **Event Categories**: art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 31

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Waitara
- **state**: TK
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 23 A West Quay, Waitara, New Zealand 4320
- **lat**: -39.00033
- **long**: 174.23851
- **full address**: 23 A West Quay, Waitara, New Zealand 4320, New Zealand

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: KareNZ kitz (https://allevents.in/org/karenz-kitz/15964923)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 12:00 am (+12:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 23 A West Quay, Waitara, New Zealand 4320, New Zealand
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** KareNZ kitz
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Weave your own backpack or kete ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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